Looks like GHF's current chat provider is going to be closing down it's chat services come the end of the month. I will share with you some snippets from an email I received today from the envolve people

Dear Envolve Customer -

I'm writing to inform you that the Envolve chat service will be shutting down on September 30th. Read on for details and what replacements for Envolve are available.

We’ve chosen to sunset Envolve in order to focus entirely on Firebase, our developer platform. Over the last 3 years, Firebase has grown tremendously and is now the focus of our engineering team and business. As a result, we haven't been able to give enough attention and maintainance to Envolve.

After some careful deliberation, we reached the conclusion that our Envolve customers will be better served by switching to another chat service. This was a difficult decision for us, but we believe it is the best outcome for everyone. Other chat services are now more full-featured, are better maintained, and have support on more platforms.

Therefore, on September 30th, 2014, all Envolve services will be discontinued.

Happy chatting,

DO not worry though I'm sure our intrepid lead will let us know what is going to happen after Envolve closes it's doors.

On a side note maybe it would not be a bad thing for us to loose our chat boxes for a while it seems the forum side of the site was hampered a bit by the chat, maybe things will pick up.

You know, to be honest, I still think even years after the fact that the chat was sort of a negative move as regards the health of the forum as a whole. If there had been a permanent IRC network associated with the site that the regulars could hang out in, even that would probably have had less of a negative impact on actual posting rates than integrating a chat client directly into every single page of the site.

Even when I show up once every couple months these days, I'll often just speak to people in chat and maybe write one post. I know it's not like nothing interesting happens around here; there's several folks who have been whipping up models at some feverish pace for some unknown (and presumably diabolical) purpose for years, but we see very little of it in the forums. It gives the at least partially erroneous impression that this place is well and truly dead.

Regardless of my feelings on the idea of having a chat client as a whole, and I'd be loathe to give it up now knowing what benefits it offers, I will say that the current one should have been replaced years ago or even never implemented in the first place. I've never liked its clunky intrusive manner, or especially the way it mutes me if I dare speak at any pace quicker than 'tedious crawl.'

Well, I guess that's that. So who we going through for new chat service?Also who was it that knows how to integrate forums? I wanna have decent forums on my own site; kind of like how these forums work with MMH.

A while back the chat client changed and I couldnt access the chat and talk to you wonderful people. This was ngeative on my part as i found the real time chat great for bouncing ideas, projects updates, getting help in real time ect...

The demise of the chat wasnt 100% the cause of myt disapperance but it did play a small part. Now I see the chat is forever gone.

Naajaw wrote:Sons of GHF, of TESFU, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of Morrowind modders fails, when we forsake our uploads and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of new games and shattered downloadable files when the age of Morrowind modding comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good island of Vvardenfell (and the rest of Morrowind to you folks at Tamriel Rebuilt), I bid you, stand, men of the East!

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Bah Maiqdaboss you doesn't has to sit in chat, there are plenty of threads one could necromance, and then maybe even start your own thread.O_OAlso I only saw that you had been in chat so I must have not been around when you were in chat.As every one knows I have this thing where i get up and walk away from my PC, with out closing/exiting the chat

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The idea of the chat was good but it did detract from the forums and everything written was lost each night. To have the chat work well you'd need a lot of traffic and even the sites that do have the traffic needed would not have enough to feed both the forums and the chat for such a niche interest.

The thing about the chat was to get quick input. The chat was never meant to take any traffic away from the forums.There is still the temporary chat linked in a few of the above posts.I'll relink it here just in case it is hard to find further up.

Or you know maybe some people that want to have a conversation can start a forum thread, and every one can contribute to the conversation should they desire. That is unless you are talkin behind our backs. then we'd have no choice but to sic th eOWLs on you.

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I've register and tried logging in and it just won't let me on android.

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.Those who refuse to engage in politics are doomed to be ruled by their inferiors.There is always hope. Only because it's the one thing no one has figured out how to kill yet.We are all the sum of our tears. To little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much and the best of us is washed away.Christ came to tell us to love one another, and the last 2,000 years we've spent killing each other over how he said it?When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.All quotes taken from Babylon 5 or Crusade.

Thanks All!I'll try that wolf but not today. To much a ready on my plate.Thanks Drak. I'm trying!

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.Those who refuse to engage in politics are doomed to be ruled by their inferiors.There is always hope. Only because it's the one thing no one has figured out how to kill yet.We are all the sum of our tears. To little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much and the best of us is washed away.Christ came to tell us to love one another, and the last 2,000 years we've spent killing each other over how he said it?When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.All quotes taken from Babylon 5 or Crusade.

@ Wolf - didn't work says not supported.BUT I did find the chatango app!

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.Those who refuse to engage in politics are doomed to be ruled by their inferiors.There is always hope. Only because it's the one thing no one has figured out how to kill yet.We are all the sum of our tears. To little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much and the best of us is washed away.Christ came to tell us to love one another, and the last 2,000 years we've spent killing each other over how he said it?When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.All quotes taken from Babylon 5 or Crusade.